The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-08-25

as n circus wagon, and looks like ono that
had tramr~l all summer and stood IN the
weather without shed over IL for two or
three winters. The Doge's palace, adjoining.
needs repairing badly, aud am pleased 10
state that the need Is TO some extent being
met
or the Bridge Of Signs and the prison
shall say little, because 50 much has already
been said One is disappointed in their ap.
pearaucc today, but the tears and the blood,
the torture and the treachery which have
made them infamous snd famous have left
am indeliole imprint, and what the nippant
traveller may think and write now cannot by
possibility take from them the fearful inter
est they will always excite, or remove from
them the stains that give them a red letter
page, not only IN Venetian history but in the
everlasting history Of mankind
But / must talk no more Of Venice. II
lives in guide books, poetry and story, and
there let those who wish 20 know more OF 1t
go. / am now in Milan, a city as modern
and commonplace as Venice is meiiWvai and
peculiar. and feel relieved once more, after
the antiquity and art of other Italian towns,
% get into this one which has set the past
away 90 COOL and prdes itself upon its
present. and has hope ln It's future.
Milan used o. bee am old town, but il is new
now, and, with the possible exception Of
Turin il the most American city i'm Italy
lts cathedral is still the wonder Of the archi-
tcctural world, though, as il has been for
hundreds Of years and will be for hundreds
To come, int the number Of advertisements
noticed on the Old barn doors at the front
Of the elegant eifce was an indica-
ton % me that the spirit Of the Nineteenth
century had even pervaded these sacred
precincts The cathedral is q glorious struc-
ture bat 10 is too much Of good thing In
great building one seeks general effect rather
than minute excellence, and. although this
combines both. the average observer neglects
the lesser for the greater, and a large part Of
The work is absolutely valuel,ss from am
architectural point 81 view. Little statues,
SIX inchc, TAN. stuck up ON a pinnacle 200 feet
above the ground. can scarcely expect % re
ceiyc due recognition, and there are hundreds
~ these piguy figures on the great cathedral
Every time ! saw one thought Of a flea on
an elephant and felt sorry for the flea
In the interior, however, the cathedral. ex-
cep'ing the imitation marble fret work IN the
ceiling arches, met every requirement. and /
think mo- church iu Italy this Promised Land
~ churches. can present an interior SD
rroudly, soleWly impressive as that q the
cathedral at Milan We went from roof 10
collar. and Do the cellar we saw the eighteen
carat sterling silver tomb of st. Boromeo,
nfl the saints ghastly bones clothed in silks
ami jewels on exhibition A priest showed as
the interesting remains, and be put on robe
of white before BE- spat on bis hands and began
Oh turn the crank that lets down the ld and
exposes the sanity gho-tiues- 10 view at five
francs for the crowd. ] DO think il a shame
tmt @ coT,o's bones arc made % DO dime
museum duty IN the finest cathedral in the
world
iu the meantime shall reserve my further
remarks on Milan until some future OCCASION.
lnd Drhey say, She Is very glad Of it,
MARY JANE